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(81,419 posts) Thu May 7, 2026, 11:17 AM 4 hrs ago

The Trump-Epstein Readi "most visitors to the reading room won't be allowed to page through the documents."

The Trump-Epstein Reading Room reposted
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BREAKING: Mystery group opens MASSIVE physical library in New York City containing all 3,400 volumes of the Epstein files as critics accuse DOJ of hiding the truth.

While the Justice Department under new Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche continues to drag its feet on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a group called the Institute for Primary Facts has taken matters into its own hands — and the result is as haunting as it is powerful.

The group has opened a physical reading room in New York City, housing every page of the Epstein files across more than 3,400 volumes. Part public art installation, part functioning library, the space contains 17,000 pounds of evidence documenting the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and his network of powerful enablers.

MS Now contributor Lisa Rubin previewed the space and spoke with David Garrett, a businessman turned activist who serves as spokesperson for the group. His explanation for why they built it physically rather than digitally cuts right to the heart of why this library matters:

"When you're looking at something digitally, whether it's on your phone or on your computer, that digital experience makes it very difficult to really understand the scale of what we're talking about. What we have here is really focused on the survivors and the victims. What we wanted to build was a way to honor the survivors and victims and surround them by 17,000 pounds of evidence of those crimes."

Seventeen thousand pounds. Walk into that room and you feel the weight of what was done and what has been hidden.

But here's the detail that tells you everything about where we still are: most visitors to the reading room won't be allowed to page through the documents. Not because the Institute is being secretive — but because the DOJ's redactions remain so inadequate that the files are still not safe to read without putting the survivors at risk. Even the people Epstein victimized cannot safely read the government's own files about their victimization at this point.

The Justice Department has released millions of pages. Pam Bondi and her successor have called it exhaustive. Congressional investigators found a sealed suicide note the DOJ had never seen. Survivors issued a joint statement saying the burden of truth must fall on the powerful, not on them.

And now a mysterious group with 3,400 volumes and 17,000 pounds of paper is doing more to honor that truth than the Department of Justice has managed in years.

Please like and share this story if you believe that Epstein's survivors deserve the full truth — and that the people who victimized them and those who covered up the whole scandal deserve to face accountability.